Over the years I have written many literary papers. For High school literary papers, it was mostly summarizing the stories main points. For those papers I also had to use quotes. In high school the literary papers where very basic. The teacher would hand out questions that she thought needed to be answered by our quotes. When I got to college however, that all changed. It was not longer summarizing but picking an element from the story and write about that element with supporting quotes. I found that out the hard way on my first paper, freshman year. My favorite type of literary analysis paper that I did in college was, picking a character and simply writing about that character. It was fun taking a stance on how I felt the character acted. So, to answer the question of have I ever written a literary analysis, my answer would be yes. In high school I had to many poem analysisí. I find those much harder then stories or books. The reason I find them harder is because poems are so abstract. In poems it is harder to find the main points. You have to search around and really work to find the answer. Another thing that is harder about a poem analysis is the fact that you have a lot less text to work with, then if you are using a book or a short story. I feel like that is a disadvantage for me because it helps me to have many different quotes that make the same point. I like this better because different quotes can fit better into my paper then other quotes might have fit into it. For the paper that we are going to have to write using the short stories, I have a few questions. Mostly how to organize the paragraphs if we are comparing two stories. I understand that we have to compare and contrast but, are those separate paragraphs? Also, regarding the organization, I am unsure of where the quotes go in the paragraphs. Other then that I do not have any other questions. Word Count 351.

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